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Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in practical and safety-critical settings are increasingly susceptible to bit-flip faults caused by hardware degradation, cosmic radiation, or deliberate fault-injection attacks such as Rowhammer. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Muhammad Zeeshan Karamat , Sadman Saif , Christiana Chamon Garcia

Bug localization is the task of recommending source code locations (typically files) that contain the cause of a bug and hence need to be changed to fix the bug. Along these lines, information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL)…

Bug severity prediction is important in software maintenance, because it helps the development teams to prioritize bugs that have a significant impact on the operation, stability and security of the system. In large software projects bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nafisha Tamanna Nice

Duplicate bug reports make up 42% of all reports in bug tracking systems (e.g., Bugzilla), causing significant maintenance overhead. Hence, detecting and resolving duplicate bug reports is essential for effective issue management.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Usmi Mukherjee , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Recent studies have shown that bugs can be categorized into intrinsic and extrinsic types. Intrinsic bugs can be backtracked to specific changes in the version control system (VCS), while extrinsic bugs originate from external changes to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Pragya Bhandari , Gema Rodríguez-Pérez

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate correct patches for buggy programs. Recent approaches leveraging large language models (LLMs) have shown promise but face limitations. Most rely solely on static analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhili Huang , Ling Xu , Chao Liu , Weifeng Sun , Xu Zhang , Yan Lei , Meng Yan , Hongyu Zhang

We explore the application of Information Retrieval (IR) based bug localization methods at a large industrial setting, Facebook. Facebook's code base evolves rapidly, with thousands of code changes being committed to a monolithic repository…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Vijayaraghavan Murali , Lee Gross , Rebecca Qian , Satish Chandra

Context: An increasing number of software systems are written in multiple programming languages (PLs), which are called multi-programming-language (MPL) systems. MPL bugs (MPLBs) refers to the bugs whose resolution involves multiple PLs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zengyang Li , Jiabao Ji , Peng Liang , Ran Mo , Hui Liu

LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed for software maintenance tasks such as automated program repair (APR). APR agents automatically fetch GitHub issues and use backend LLMs to generate patches that fix the reported bugs. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Simin Chen , Yixin He , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

Patch reviewing is critical for software development, especially in distributed open-source development, which highly depends on voluntary work, such as Linux. This paper studies the past 10 years of patch reviews of the Linux memory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chih-En Lin , Attreyee Mukherjee , Ajay Rawat , Ruqi Zhang , Pedro Fonseca

Deep Learning (DL) compilers are widely adopted to optimize advanced DL models for efficient deployment on diverse hardware. Their quality has profound effect on the quality of compiled DL models. A recent bug study shows that the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Haoyang Ma , Qingchao Shen , Yongqiang Tian , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Modern game studios deliver new builds and patches at a rapid pace, generating thousands of bug reports, many of which embed gameplay videos. To verify and triage these bug reports, developers must watch the submitted videos. This manual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wentao Lu , Alexander Senchenko , Abram Hindle , Cor-Paul Bezemer

Providing personalized and timely feedback for student's programming assignments is useful for programming education. Automated program repair (APR) techniques have been used to fix the bugs in programming assignments, where the Large…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Fang Liu , Zhenwei Liu , Qianhui Zhao , Jing Jiang , Li Zhang , Ge Li , Zian Sun , Zhongqi Li , Yuchi Ma

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are increasingly integrated into clinical workflows; however, prompt injection attacks can steer these systems toward clinically unsafe or misleading outputs. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Junhyeok Lee , Han Jang , Kyu Sung Choi

Many ML-based approaches have been proposed to automatically detect, localize, and repair software vulnerabilities. While ML-based methods are more effective than program analysis-based vulnerability analysis tools, few have been integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Trung Le , Yuki Kume , Van Nguyen , Dinh Phung , John Grundy

Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) is gaining increasing attention in reconfigurable hardware communities due to its capability to represent various abstract levels for software compilers. This project aims to be the first to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhenya Zang , Uwe Dolinsky , Pietro Ghiglio , Stefano Cherubin , Mehdi Goli , Shufan Yang

Automated program repair (APR) struggles to scale from isolated functions to full repositories, as it demands a global, task-aware understanding to locate necessary changes. Current methods, limited by context and reliant on shallow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhongqiang Pan , Chuanyi Li , Wenkang Zhong , Yi Feng , Bin Luo , Vincent Ng

Many users and contributors of large open-source projects report software defects or enhancement requests (known as bug reports) to the issue-tracking systems. However, they sometimes report issues that have already been reported. First,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Clare E. Laney , Andrew Barovic , Armin Moin

Automated program repair (APR) is a technology that identifies and repairs bugs automatically. However, repairing multi-chunk bugs remains a long-standing and challenging problem because an APR technique must consider dependencies and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Jisung Kim , Byeongjung Lee

Large language models (LLMs) are leading significant progress in code generation. Beyond one-pass code generation, recent works further integrate unit tests and program verifiers into LLMs to iteratively refine the generated programs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Li Zhong , Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang